Environmental issues no longer stop at the factory door. Even companies that do not manufacture anything face environmental issues for products they sell or even just use. This session will explore downstream environmental concerns for all companies and what corporate counsel can do to mitigate the risks. Topics will include the REACH rule, lifecycle-assessments, financial responsibility and “greenwash” marketing and advertising concerns.
What do you do when a recall, privacy breach or other crisis hits? Managing that crisis from a legal and reputational risk is much easier if you have prepared in advance on how to deal with insurers, regulators, suppliers, customers and the media. This session will feature practical advice from in-house counsel and their external counsel who have lived through a recall crisis. Both compliance officers and law department practitioners need to be involved in developing a crisis plan. Panelists will focus on what can be done ahead of time to facilitate navigation through the crisis. An interactional “preparedness quiz” will let participants gauge whether they are prepared for a recall, privacy breach or other crisis, and if they are not, will explain the measures they need to take or put in place to become prepared.
Panelists at this session will outline and discuss new internet and privacy regulatory requirements, both state and local, and legal developments (case law), including recent state and federal regulations and court decisions.
This interactive program will discuss how to prepare for a union campaign, including a discussion of manager training, solicitation rules and what a corporate campaign is.
Many businesses, especially those not in ‘technology’ industries, do not have significant IP assets and the in-house counsel may not live or breath IP issues. But that’s no reason to ignore fundamental practices that can help the business capture or protect the value of its trademarks, trade secrets, patentable innovations, web presence and other IP assets. Or, perhaps more importantly, practices can protect the business from exposure to the IP claims of others. What questions should you be asking to evaluate and improve the business’s IP sophistication?
The next level of learning for the new securities practitioner, this session will focus on the hot topics in SEC disclosure relating to enterprise risk and compensation disclosure, proxy and shareholder proposals, and disclosure while managing through crisis.
Companies that don’t comply with local labor and employment law regarding implementing workforce reductions expose themselves to significant legal liability. Each country’s laws are different and often times highly ambiguous. There are many legal landmines along the way. This session will answer questions such as: What are the biggest challenges for employers when making these decisions? What are the most common legal claims being asserted today on behalf of laid-off workers and how could they have been avoided? What are the legal challenges to implementing decisions around workforce reductions? What are the lessons learned from making bad personnel decisions during tough economic times?
Companies are increasingly looking at joint ventures as a way to develop products, bring products to market, increase market share and, hopefully, increase revenue. This session will explore the pros and cons of various legal structures and arrangements commonly referred to as “joint ventures,” including securities laws, valuation and exit strategies, protection of intellectual property, anti-trust concerns, tax and financial statement impacts, and management of human and other resources.
Lawyers are increasingly using social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter for marketing and other purposes including gathering information about parties and witnesses in a case. In addition, sites like Legal OnRamp and Martindale-Hubbell Connected are specifically designed to facilitate communication between in-house and outside counsel. Many commentators believe that the use of social media is going to transform the practice of law much like email did years ago. While there is no doubt that these sites can be useful, they do raise numerous ethical issues for lawyers and other serious issues for their clients. This presentation will address "do's and don'ts" for you and your company to keep in mind when venturing into the world of social media.
Contract, document, matter management, electronic billing and electronic discovery: with all of the legal systems available, lawyers have never been so efficient...or so confused. Knowing where to store and find information, much less how to take action on the data, is becoming increasingly impossible and expensive. This session will illustrate a day in the life of an attorney attempting to find vital accountability metrics on a major case. Receive a checklist of advanced metrics and learn where to find the data needed to compile metrics in today’s technology landscape. With the problem identified, our panel will turn to solutions and discuss the ways in which legal departments can seamlessly bring together all of their disparate systems to more effectively communicate and share work product within their departments and with outside counsel.
Suboptimal drafting wastes everyone’s time. Can your company’s contracts be drafted more clearly, with fewer words, so they can be read and understood in less time? Do your company’s contracts create unnecessary risk? We will consider real-life examples of suboptimal drafting, and provide practical tips and solutions.
This program will provide an overview of critical international, federal and state laws governing your collection, use, and disclosure of private information, whether it’s from customers, other businesses, or your employees. Learn the types of privacy policies you should have in place, the nuts and bolts of building a privacy program, and what you should do in the event of different types of security or data breach.
Risk management has often been carried out by organizations in silos, with counsel responsible only for legal risks. Increasingly, though, systematic ERM will be imposed on corporations. This program will explore a number of issues related to ERM, including: What does ERM entail? What are the emerging ERM frameworks. such as ISO 31000, and how do they promote effective risk taking and help organizations maximize the opportunity for gain? What is ERM’s role in strategic planning? What is the appropriate role for the legal department in promoting an effective ERM program? The panel will share their experiences, demonstrating the critical contributions that ERM can make in management and in implementing an effective compliance program.
This session will be focused on the most significant changes in trademarks, copyrights and patents over the past year. The session is ideal for attorneys with a basic level of IP understanding, and is an essential program for every attorney who has IP responsibility.
Energy practitioners will cover the top ten legal issues associated with lowering energy costs, including local, state and federal regulations, contract negotiations, tax advantages and funding opportunities for "going green." The program will educate in-house counsel on how to substantially reduce energy costs for assets, such as casinos, manufacturing plants, mining operations, retail stores, restaurants, commercial real estate operations (e.g., REITS) and hospital systems while understanding the legal, regulatory and policy issues associated with doing so. Learn how to capture demand-side efficiencies and supply-side pricing advantages, including aggregating load for better pricing and changing customer from retail to wholesale; managing price risk exposure and negotiating price lock-ins in current supply contracts, or negotiating derivatives to lock in the price based on power prices, or prices of related commodities used to generate power; and understanding the tax incentives and offset projects for going green or reducing the carbon footprint.
This Appropriate Internet Use training course will explain rules and guidelines that you must follow with the computers, phones and/or other electronic devices that you use for work.
To access the Appropriate Internet Use Training Course, visit www.acc.com/compliance.
This Code of Conduct training course will help you (1) recognize legal and ethical issues as they arise in the workplace, (2) respond appropriately to those issues, and (3) perform your job with the utmost integrity.
To access the Code of Conduct Training Course, visit <a href=http://www.ethicsxchange.com/topic/35529-code-of-conduct>www.acc.com/compliance</a>.
This Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) training course will help you recognize situations that raise FMLA issues and assist you in dealing with these issues effectively. At the end of this material, you'll play a game that presents hypothetical scenarios for you to analyze. As you answer the multiple-choice questions correctly, you'll move through the game and earn a Certificate of Completion.
To access the Family and Medical Leave Act Training Course, visit <a href=http://www.ethicsxchange.com/topic/35554-family-and-medical-leave-act>www.acc.com/compliance</a>.
This document provides an overview of employment regulations in Israel, including a discussion of key cases and important laws.
This document provides legal hypotheticals and and analyses regarding the courts, including judicial ethics.
This material presents statistics and facts about popular social media sites and ways that employers can use these sites in hiring and recruiting. Additionally, the material warns employers on the problems of using technology and social media as part of their business.
This resource explains the types, planning and structuring of joint ventures, as well as other important aspects, such as resolving disputes and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
A presentation which covers the important information you need to know about keeping personal information 'in the cloud'.
Legal Matter Management commonly describes the task of organizing and systematizing the daily workload of a corporate legal practice. Having a matter management in place is very important and also fundamental to further use and deploy IT solutions in the legal department. This program material addresses the advantages/disadvantages of a specialized legal matter management system.
Social media, if permitted or even encouraged by companies, creates great opportunities if the associated risks are properly managed. Have you defined internal policies to tackle issues, such as liability for user generated content or data privacy and confidentiality? Get familiar with other companies' best practices to evaluate your company's risk exposure or actively drive a new technology wave you will not be able to prevent.
A presentation from the 2011 Corporate Counsel University discussing the details of how to change your interaction with outside counsel.
Overview of issues facing data storage, including hacking, poor data management, relevant laws, and case studies of the issues.
This program is designed to educate attendees unfamiliar with government contracts on recognizing common government contracting compliance issues and how compliance failures may result in organizational liability. Government contracts incorporate a myriad of legal practice areas, including employment, intellectual property, international law, ethics and accounting, to name but a few. In a complex legal arena where a breach of contract can result in civil or criminal fraud investigations, a firm understanding of compliance policies and procedures is a must for all corporate counsel.
This session will take an in-depth look at the following contract clauses with an eye toward litigation. Clause topic areas to be examined include: limitation of liability; "backdoor indemnity" (e.g., warranty); the interplay between the warranty clause, the limitation of liability and indemnification; and the difference between the epidemic failure clause and the warranty clause.
608 What to Do When the SEC Calls: Securities Investigations & Other Corporate Crises
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